Chinese Porcelain Incense Burner

Item Details

A Chinese porcelain incense burner. The vessel is decorated in a traditional fahua style glazes and features a reticulated lid with a guardian lion figure. The body of the piece has two angled handles and panels of dragons across the front and back. The underside of the piece is inscribed ‘Bestowed during the reign of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty’ (大清康熙年製, Da Qing Kangxi nian zhi), however, the vessel was likely produced during the Republic period (1912-1949) or earlier. The underside is also marked with the previous museum’s inventory number ‘1938.0388’.

Provenance
Collected in the late 19th and early 20th century and donated to a Private Midwestern Institution in 1938
Sold to enhance and preserve the Institution’s mission-relevant Collections

Condition

Museum markings present to piece

Dimensions

Item #

17COL077-248